Two years ago I gave my novel Between the Sierra and the Sea to a vanity publishing house to publish. They did not style themselves as vanity-publishers, rather they talked about co-operative publishing where the author and the publisher shared the costs - my share was exhorbitant. Nevertheless, as I was having difficulties finding a regular publisher I decided to go for it. At first it seemed to go well but then the royalties dropped and eventually dried up altogether. However by then I had discovered the world of self-publishing. It was no longer as difficult as I had originally believed and I realised what potential was out there - the tools for self-publishing are cheap and easy to use. I had also found that many of the things that I could do with my self-published books were not available to me to use on Between the Sierra and the Sea. For example I could not reduce the price of the ebook version; I couldn't offer a free sample; I had no control over the translation rights. I still had to try to market the book because the publisher wasn't interested in doing it, but without all the tools that were available to a self-published work, It was frustrating so, using the lack of sales as a justification, I asked them to withdraw the book. This they agreed to do - after all they had already been handsomely paid - and the book was back under my control.After some editing I have now republished the same novel under the name of Spanish Lavender and it is available both as an ebook and in print. I hope that the sales will now improve, at least of the ebooks.Amazon KindleSmashwordswww.amazon.co.uk